Poole maliciously hurts people? Morant's right knee injury is a suspenseful case If he is not Grizzlies, it is difficult to compete with the Warriors

The Warriors' Western Conference semifinals between the Warriors and the Grizzlies are off track, with malicious fouls, controversial penalties and injuries that have diverted the focus of public opinion from the game itself.

On May 8, Beijing time, the Warriors defeated the Grizzlies 142-112 at home, leading 2-1. Originally, Warriors coach Steve Kerr's adjustment was amazing, but after the game, all the talk focused on Morant's injury.

In the final quarter, Morant suddenly left the game with a limp from the game due to a right knee injury. After the game, Grizzlies coach Jenkins blasted Jordan Poole for injuring Morant, who also accused Poole of overstepping the bounds (later deleted) on social media. However, the Warriors general believed that Poole did not deliberately injure Morant, and the two sides fought a war of words. Some experts have raised a different view, arguing that Morant's right knee was not injured by Poole, and that Morant's right knee had been problematic before that round.

Did Poole mean it? In which round was Morant's right knee injured? Morant's injuries became unsolved.

Morant's injuries were restored

At 6 minutes and 19 seconds in the fourth quarter, Morant suddenly limped to the sidelines, his right knee visibly unwell. After that, Morant opted for retirement.

It turned out that in the previous offensive round, Morant was caught between Poole and Andrew Wiggins, and Poole defended first behind Morant's right knee, and then pulled Morant's right knee when he reached for the ball.

After the game, both Jenkins and Morant himself believed that Poole's actions had caused Morante's injury. According to people familiar with the matter, the alliance is replaying and investigating Poole's actions from multiple angles to determine whether additional penalties are needed for Poole.

However, the Warriors' side believed that Poole did not intentionally hurt Morant. Warriors star Chris Mullin believes that this is definitely not a malicious and hurtful move, this is an accident when grabbing the ball. Poole believes that what he did was a basketball move, that he was not the kind of player who deliberately hurt his opponent, that he was rushing to grab the ball, not to Morant's knee. Including Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, Poole did not believe that Poole was not maliciously fouled.

In addition, American medical expert Rajpal Brar has the same view as Thompson, who believes that Poole's hand strength is not enough to injure Morant's knee. But before Poole reached the back of Morant's knee side, it could have affected his knee.

Many believe that Morant was injured because of Pooler's two movements, but some experts believe that Morant's right knee was already unwell long before that round.

The first is the beginning of the third quarter, Thompson shook away Morant's three-point shot, Morant had already hit his right knee when he saved Thompson, and some media believed that this was the real cause of Morant's discomfort in his right knee.

Then in the fourth quarter at 7:34, Morant broke through the lever and landed on his right foot as he landed on the basket. Former Grizzlies executive John Hollinger believes Morant may have injured his right knee at this time.

Exactly when Morant was injured has become a suspense case, these 3 rounds, 4 shots, any one of them may be the real cause of Morant's injury, and it is now impossible to determine whether Morant's right knee injury was caused by Purna's pull.

Morant's injury analysis

Because it's not certain exactly which round Morant was injured, it's hard to tell how badly his right knee injury is. Medical expert Evan Jeffries has analyzed empirically that if Morant had been injured in the same round as a Warriors, his injury could have been more complicated.

Poole's knee hit the back of Morant's right knee, causing a sprain of his medial knee ligament. Pulling Morant's right knee may have caused sprains in the lateral ligaments of his knee.

From past experience, if Morant is diagnosed with a sprained knee ligament, he may not be able to play in the next game. This season, Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis have missed more than a month in the regular season due to such injuries. In the first round of the playoffs, Bucks big player Middleton also suffered this injury and is expected to miss 3-4 weeks.

Morant will then undergo an MRI to determine whether there is a structural injury to his right knee, the severity of the injury, and the results will determine whether Morant will miss the game.

The Grizzlies want to win the Warriors without Morant

This season, the Grizzlies experienced a phenomenon that greatly embarrassed Morant. In the 25 games that Morant missed, the Grizzlies had a super-high winning percentage of 20 wins and 5 losses, and they lost three of the five games they lost. When Morant was on the floor, the Grizzlies had a 100-game net win score of 4.1 points, and when he wasn't on the floor, the Grizzlies had a 100-game goal difference of 6.4 points.

There's a voice that says "the Grizzlies don't fare better than Morant" because Morant isn't on the floor and the Grizzlies are more efficient in offense and better defensively. But by the playoffs, that voice was gone. It turns out that the playoffs have always been the stage for big stars, even if Morant's data and inefficient first round, the Grizzlies are a better team when he is on the court.

In the first round against the Timberwolves, Morant was limited by Patrick Beverley, and Beverley's name call to Morant was also very effective. But the data shows that Morant was on the floor, the Grizzlies won 6.6 points per 100 games, and when he was not on the court, the data plummeted to 2.7 points, and their offense regressed severely, and the 100-game score plummeted from 114.6 points to 99.3 points. Tyrus Jones is indeed solid, but he lacks Morant's offensive development capabilities.

This round of playing the Warriors is even more obvious, Morant is on the floor, the Grizzlies 100 rounds net win 2.9 points, and when he is not on the court, the Grizzlies lost 32 points in 29 minutes, the net loss of 100 rounds exceeded 50 points, the offense could not be opened, and the defense was also exploded.

It's easy to understand that Dillon Brooks has not performed as well this season as much as last season, and he was banned in one of the three games, expelled not long after one game, and performed poorly in the first game of normal play. Jones was completely useless due to his talent and was replaced by Melton. Desmond Bain had no solution in the first round, but in the second round, due to a back injury, the fate of the Grizzlies all depended on Morant playing.

Next, if Morant is absent or doesn't play well because of injuries, the Grizzlies' prospects bleak. Barring Brooks' next breakout, Bane shrugged off injuries and took out the outside fire in the first round.